Dan Dare Omnibus

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Alastair Crompton. The Man Who Drew Tomorrow: How Frank Hampson Created Dan Dare, the World's Best Comic Strip (Bournemouth, Dorset: Who Dares Publishing, 1985) [nonfiction: hb/]

With its English language service, Radio Luxembourg, which had offices at 38 Hertford Street, London, was far more than just a radio station. From its long-wave outset in 1933 to its its final shutdown in 1992, Radio Luxembourg was not only the biggest commercial radio station in Europe, it had a formative influence on generations of listeners. ‘The Station of the Stars‘, the famous ‘Two-O-Eight‘, was the expression of freedom and liberty for a whole generation in Western as well as Eastern Europe, and therefore had a major impact on society, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. For more on Dan Dare's creator, see The Man Who Drew Tomorrow ( 1985) by Alastair Crompton, and for more on the character see The Dan Dare Dossier ( 1990 chap) by Norman Wright and Mike Higgs and Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future: The Biography ( 2010) by Daniel Tatarsky; the latter includes synopses of more than 30 of Dare's adventures. [RT/ABP/JE/SH/JP/DRL] British electronic dance group Fluke mentioned Dan Dare in their song "Absurd", "Dan Dare's sitting there, scared by the killer teddy bears".Dan-Dare.net is a fan of Mario and Sonic Games, Sonic and Mario Flash Games, Disney and Pixar Games, Pixar Cars Games, Pixar Finding Nemo Games, Digby (Albert Fitzwilliam Digby) was Dan's Wigan-born batman. Rotund and sometimes bumbling, he provided comic relief. He was fiercely loyal and the only character apart from Dan to appear in every story. His favourite recreation was sleeping and he was fond of traditional English food. His nearest relative was his Aunt Anastasia, after whom Dan named his spaceship.

The Quisling: The tertiary villains in Operation Saturn are the Rootha, the native aristocracy of Saturnia who serve the real ruler, Vora, who was of interstellar origin. The secondary villain is the human Blasco, who plots to similarly serve as Vora's Quisling emperor on Earth. (The primary villain is, of course, Vora himself). In 2007–2008 Virgin Comics published a 7-issue Dan Dare mini-series written by Garth Ennis, with art by Gary Erskine. [9] Virgin's founder and chairman Richard Branson is a fan of the character. [10] The series is set several years after the original strips. Space Fleet has collapsed along with the UN due to nuclear war between China and America; Britain survived due to defensive shields made by Professor Peabody, and has become a world power again as a result, with the Royal Navy taking Space Fleet's role. Peabody is the Home Secretary to a prime minister modelled on Tony Blair, who has sold Earth's defence out to The Mekon out of fear of overwhelming odds. Dare, assisted by Digby (who sacrifices himself in battle) leads a spirited defence of both Earth and his honourable principles.During the 1980s Dan Dare starred in three computer games for the Commodore 64/128, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Atari computers. The first was a different game on each system; the second and third were shoot'em-ups. All three were based on the 1950s strip rather than the contemporary comics: Southport’s The Atkinson is hosting an exhibition to mark the centenary of Dan Dare creator Frank Hampson’s birth, which launches on 15th September 2018, and we have a some pictures of items that will be included here With interviews with those in front of and behind the microphones along with information from the BBC Archive and contemporary magazines, Charles has put together an in-depth history for the four radio dramas as well as detailed episode listings of each. Additional jingles promoting the series and audio relating to the show have also survived and some scripts are known to still exist. Other stories included “ The Martian Bees“, centring on a hostile race of Martians led by Dorgan and his part­icularly vicious son, Baxilo, who were breeding swarms of ‘Bizenti’ -large space bees, a story perhaps inspired by the Eagle story, “The Red Moon Mystery”.

Read an interview with Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine conducted by Matt Badham about this project, published in November 2007 When asked about the influence of Dan Dare, the late Professor Stephen Hawking replied: "Why am I in cosmology?"Those who try to predict the future tend to fail miserably; computers and robots look and function completely differently to how our predecessors perceived them, whilst advances in transport also remain far from what was predicted by the Eagle. Morris then came up with the exact design for the logo, based on a brass eagle which stood on top of a glass inkwell he had bought at a vicarage garden party. The “Dan Dare” strip was created by artist Frank Hampson, who for many remains its definitive artist, but received little financial reward for his efforts, which caused him considerable upset throughout his life. Other artists to work on Dare included Don Harley, Keith Watson and Frank Bellamy. The latter would later become well-known for his work on TV Century 21 and his Doctor Who illustrations in the Radio Times, and radically re-designed many of the Dan Dare characters and hardware during his tenure on the strip.